Wishlist sorting (Release Date)

[Tyrant]

When sorting the wishlist by release date, unreleased titles are all treated as an equal release date, even if they provide a date. So these are all filtered to the top, unsorted. Some titles are Q1, Q2, Q3, 2024, 2025, or provide an actual date for the release date. But in the list they will all be treated the same and no sorting is applied at all.

This makes it very difficult to sort the list quickly to see what titles on your wishlist may be releasing soon, which is generally what I would want to use this sorting feature for.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Tyrant:

When sorting the wishlist by release date, unreleased titles are all treated as an equal release date, even if they provide a date. So these are all filtered to the top, unsorted. Some titles are Q1, Q2, Q3, 2024, 2025, or provide an actual date for the release date. But in the list they will all be treated the same and no sorting is applied at all.

This makes it very difficult to sort the list quickly to see what titles on your wishlist may be releasing soon, which is generally what I would want to use this sorting feature for.

The wishlist needs another update, yes.

When Valve changed how they're displayed back in 2022, quite a few games that have been left to rot got changed to Coming Soon and this made things worse...

Steamworks Development Announcement    Oct 26, 2022

Update: Date Displays and Listings for Upcoming Releases 

Introducing a new set of tools for setting and displaying Coming Soon dates on the Steam storefront! Below, we’ll explain the new options and our rationale for the changes, and also share some...

[Pogo]

I've started checking this more often after all the extra wishlisting I do during Nextfests.
IMO, unreleased titles should be sorted based on declared release date and level of specificity

for example, [Jan 5th 2025] would be considered "sooner" than [Jan 2025] which is in turn sooner than [Q1 2025] and then [2025]. (Even though the vague ranges begin sooner, they can release later and still land within their target range)

All forms of Coming Soon/TBA/Etc would still be lumped together at the far end.